Busse Library provides these titles and websites for students and faculty seeking information about the Civil Rights Movement in America and human rights issues across the globe. Books listed here are a sampling available in the library and elsewhere. Websites reflect selected topics.
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Civil Rights Movement: America -- Civil Rights Organizations: America -- Gateways to Human Rights -- Human Rights: Africa -- Human Rights: Asia -- Human Rights: Europe -- Latin and South America -- Human Rights: The Middle East and North Africa -- Human Rights: The Pacific -- Busse Library Resources
Civil Rights Movement: America
- 40th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington: US Department of State -- includes full text and audio of "I Have a Dream" speech
- African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship: American Memory Project: Library of Congress
- Birmingham (AL) Civil Rights Institute
- Brown VS. Board of Education : The Interactive Experience
- Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary: 1957-1997
- Malcolm X: A Research Site: University of Toledo
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project: Stanford University
- National Civil Rights Museum: Memphis, TN
- National Voting Rights Museum and Institute: Selma, AL
- Reporting Civil Rights: The Library of America
- Rosa Parks: National Women's Hall of Fame
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960-1966: Greensboro, NC
- We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement: U.S. National Parks Service
Civil Rights Organizations: America
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Google: Human Rights and Liberties: Advocacy Organizations
- Human and Civil Rights Organizations in America (HCROA) -- gateway to resources
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- National Organization for Women (NOW)
- National Urban League (NUL)
- Amnesty International
- The Carter Center: Atlanta, GA
- Coalition for International Justice (CIJ)
- Derechos: Human Rights
- Google: Human Rights and Liberties
- Human Rights Resource Center: The University of Minnesota
- Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- U.S. State Department: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
- Africa Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- African Human Rights Resource Center: University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
- Center for Democracy and Development (CDD)
- Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation : South Africa
- Derechos Human Rights Links: Africa
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC): South Africa
- Washington Office on Africa
- Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
- Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
- East Timor Action Network: US
- Human Rights in China (HRIC)
- National Human Rights Commission India (NHRC)
- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
- SARANGBANG Group for Human Rights: South Korea
- Students for a Free Tibet -- U.S. college movement
- Vietnam Human Rights Network
- Balkan Human Rights Network
- The BALKAN Human Rights Web Pages
- British Helsinki Human Rights Group (BHHRG) -- monitors former Soviet Union and Bloc nations
- Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms in Prishtina (CDHRF) -- documents Serb abuses in Kosova
- European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
- European Court of Human Rights: Council of Europe
- Memorial -- explores civil rights history in Russia
- Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC)
- Prague Watchdog: Crisis in Chechnya
- Turkey: Focus on Human Rights: Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Human Rights: Latin and South America
- Colombia Support Network
- Derechos Human Rights Links: America -- Spanish-only texts
- Latin American Network Information Center
- Remember-Chile: General Pinochet and Human Rights Abuses
- School of the Americas Watch (SOAW)
- Washington Office on Latin America
Human Rights: The Middle East and North Africa
- Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
- Algeria Watch International
- Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR)
- Association for Civil Rights in Israel
- Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR)
- Human Rights: Yemen: Derechos
- Iraq Action Coalition
- The Iraq Foundation
- Kurdish Human Rights Project : Iran (KHRP)
- Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC)
- U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL)
- Asia-Pacific Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education (ARRC)
- Australian Human Rights Center (AHRC)
- Human Rights Council of Australia (HRCA)
- New Zealand Human Rights Organization
- U.S. State Department: Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Amnesty international. Human rights violations against the indigenous peoples / 1992. JC599.A46 H86 1992
- Andreopoulos, George J. Human rights education for the twenty-first century / c1997. JC571 .H769442 1997
- Brownlie, Ian. Basic documents on human rights / 1992. K3238.A1 B76 1992, Ref.
- Burns, James MacGregor. A people's charter: the pursuit of rights in America / 1993. JC599.U5 B87 1993
- Cornelius, Wayne A. Controlling immigration: a global perspective / c1994. JV6271 .C66 1994
- Donnelly, Jack. International human rights / 1993. JC571 .D753 1993
- Forsythe, David P. Human rights and peace: international and national dimensions / c1993. K3240.4 .F677 1993
- Lawson, Edward. Encyclopedia of human rights / c1996. JC571 .E67 1996, Ref.
- Lipset, Seymour Martin. The encyclopedia of democracy / c1995. JC423 .E53 1995, Ref.
- United States Commission on Civil Rights. Civil rights journal / 1995-. PERIODICALS.
- United States, Bureau of International Labor Affairs. Forced labor: the prostitution of children / 1996. HQ103 .F67 1996
- Van Wormer, Katherine S. Social welfare: a world view / c1997. HV31 .V35 1997
- White, C. Dale. Making a just peace: human rights & domination systems / c1998. JC571 .W46 1998
- Williams, Mary E. Human rights: opposing viewpoints / c1998. JC571 .H76968 1998
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